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In an interview with an Arab newspaper on Tuesday, Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah portrayed President Bush as a foreign policy neophyte who really hadn't done his homework before their summit meeting last month - comments that echo Democratic Party criticism that Bush is a total dunce when it comes to international affairs. "In the morning he only reads a few lines about what is written on the Middle East," Abdullah told the newspaper Okaz. "I felt it was my duty to spend as long a time as possible to brief him on the facts," the Saudi leader added. Abdullah's...

Bin Laden sends email attacking Saudi peace plan 27-03-2002 Ananova: A London-based Arabic newspaper says it has received an email it believes to be from Osama bin Laden. The email to the Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper denounces Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah's Middle East peace plan and praises Palestinian suicide attacks. The style and the language of the statement closely resembles those used in previous statements by bin Laden. "Prince Abdullah bin Abdel-Aziz's initiative, a Zionist-American (initiative) in Saudi government clothes, is merely a trick and a conspiracy," says bin Laden in the email. The Saudi initiative offers "normal relations" and...

By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid, Editor in Chief, Asharq Al-Awsat LONDON, 11 May — Crown Prince Abdullah, deputy premier and commander of the National Guard, has laid out the conditions for establishing diplomatic ties with Israel.“The withdrawal of their forces will not be enough in itself. They must return to the pre-1967 borders, end their occupation of Jerusalem (which will be the capital of Palestine), and allow refugees to return to their homeland. Moreover, Syria should get the Golan Heights, and Lebanon its remaining occupied land,” he said. Prince Abdullah made this statement in an exclusive interview with Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper,...

What was the point of Saudi crown prince Abdullah's trip to Crawford, Texas? Nothing substantial emerged from the so-called summit. The Arabian oil autocrat said nothing at the end of his meeting with President Bush. No new guidelines for the Saudis' increasingly overdue investigation of their citizens' involvement in September 11 and al Qaeda were revealed. Nor did the American side unveil any new agreement for common action on Iraq. In other words, the U.S.-Saudi summit seemed to be business as usual. And that meant a discreet encounter, with Washington continuing to downplay the abuses of the Saudi regime--namely, its...

Situation ReportsUnited States State Department officials announced April 16 that Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, the defacto Saudi ruler, cancelled his planned April 22 visit to the United States to protest continued Israeli military activites in the occupied territories, Arabicnews.com reported.2220 Greenwich Mean Time

<p>April 26, 2002 -- HOW nice! Saudi Arabia's Prince Abdullah came to the United States to stay at the president's own house in Texas. And while accepting George W. Bush's hospitality, he may have bandied about the idea of his nation declaring war on the United States.</p>